Posts by ADM

Beyond State, Power, and Violence

February 24, 2022

Author: Abdullah Öcalan Description: After the dissolution of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in 2002, internal discussions ran high, and fear and uncertainty about the future of the Kurdish freedom movement threatened to unravel the gains of decades of organizing and armed struggle. From his prison cell, Abdullah Öcalan intervened…

The Main Principles of Democratic Confederalism

Editor’s Choice, PARADIGM, Radical Democracy

February 23, 2022

Democratic Confederalism, as defined by Abdullah Öcalan is the ethical, political, and administrative expression of society – as a historical and sociological structure – in which different identities, factions and groups coexist in dialectical harmony. By this we are not referring to a classical confederal structure consisting of states, but…

A New Form of International Solidarity

PARADIGM, Radical Democracy

February 23, 2022

How can we understand democratic autonomy or democratic confederalism? Is it a system that is regionally specific and therefore only able to address the Kurdish population? I can explain the democratic autonomy by giving a historical overview, as follows: the earlier concept of non-state society later became known as civil…

Afghan Women’s Struggles against Patriarchy, Imperialism and Capitalism

MOVEMENT, Women's Freedom

September 20, 2019

The following is an interview conducted by activists of the Kurdish Women’s Movement with Samia Walid, activist of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan). Can you please tell us about the history and mission of RAWA? What were Afghan women’s conditions when your organization was first formed? What is…